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  • The Witch Of Wall Street: Hetty Green

    de Boyden Sparkes, Samuel Taylor Moore ...
    She wore rags to hide millions, lived like a pauper while commanding fortunes that could topple banks, and struck fear into the hearts of Wall Street's most powerful men. Hetty Green, known as the Witch of Wall Street, was the most ruthlessly successful financier of America's Gilded Age and arguably the shrewdest investor who ever lived. This electrifying biography unveils the extraordinary woman ... Leer más

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  • Life à la Henri

    Being the Memories of Henri Charpentier

    de Henri Charpentier, Boyden Sparkes ...
    Life à la Henri is the delightful memoir-with-recipes of Henri Charpentier, the world's first celebrity chef. First published in 1934, the book traces Henri's career from his days as a scrap of a bellboy on the French Riviera and a quick-witted apprentice in a three-star kitchen (when he invented crêpe suzette) to his sailing for New York to open his renowned namesake restaurants that introduced ... Leer más

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  • Adventures of a White-Collar Man

    de Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Boyden Sparkes ...
    “Alfred Sloan’s Adventures of a White-Collar Man was published in 1940. Much has happened in the intervening decades... One might be forgiven for wondering whether a book written so long ago has anything to offer the modern reader...Such skepticism would be mistaken.Adventures is... an epic saga, a rags-to-riches story of a group of plucky eccentrics who, on fire for opportunity, began by building ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Father Struck It Rich

    de Evalyn Walsh McLean ...
    Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. His daughter, Evalyn Walsh McLean, tells an engaging true story of the family that wanted for nothing. They led a life of extravagance. It enabled them to acquire possessions such as the Hope Diamond and the fabulous homes that hosted spectacular social functions and served as retreats for kings and ... Leer más

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  • Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective

    de James M. Boyden, Richard Campanella, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Thomas Adams ...
    "There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the scope of the storm's impact as well as the local and national response to it. In Hurricane Katrina in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Hetty

    The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

    de Charles Slack ...
    This acclaimed biography of the Gilded Age's Queen of Wall Street is "a must-read for all aspiring moguls" (Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School).When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Michelle Obama

    A Life

    de Peter Slevin ...
    This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Disintegration

    de Eugene Robinson ...
    Instead of one black America, today there are four.“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from DisintegrationThe African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and ... Leer más

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  • Up From Slavery

    de Booker T. Washington ...
    Named one of the best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library, Up from Slavery is the poignant telling, in plain language, of Booker T. Washington’s rise from slavery to become a preeminent advocate for civil rights of his time.Although Up from Slavery was initially criticized by African-American leaders for Washington’s perceived soft-pedalling of his message of racial ... Leer más

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  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    de Elizabeth Catte ...
    An antidote to bigotry and a "perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience" ( Los Angeles Times).In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment ... Leer más

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  • Up From Slavery

    de Booker T. Washington ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, orator, author and leader of the African-American community. He was freed from slavery as a child, and after working at several menial jobs in West Virginia, earned his way through an education at Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. Upon recommendation of Hampton founder Sam ... Leer más

    $1.15 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Michelle

    A Biography

    de Liza Mundy ...
    She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic couple in politics today. She shows how well they complement each other: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD